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Recent Examples of pothole
Under Mahan’s tenure, the city’s vehicles have been outfitted with pothole-detecting cameras and its employees use AI to win multimillion-dollar grants.
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Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
In the video, a school bus gets stuck in a pothole and JJ and his friends transform into superheroes after eating some delicious fruity muffins.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 8 Aug. 2025
And it’s projected to increase further — before a single pothole is filled or police officer is hired.
—John J Roach Iii, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
This combination of strength and energy generation could be used in several types of wearables and Internet of Things applications, including infrastructure systems to reinforce bridges and highways that sense when a crack, pothole, or other damage appears, Yu says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
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Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
In the video, a school bus gets stuck in a pothole and JJ and his friends transform into superheroes after eating some delicious fruity muffins.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 8 Aug. 2025
And it’s projected to increase further — before a single pothole is filled or police officer is hired.
—John J Roach Iii, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
This combination of strength and energy generation could be used in several types of wearables and Internet of Things applications, including infrastructure systems to reinforce bridges and highways that sense when a crack, pothole, or other damage appears, Yu says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pothole
Noun
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Inter basin transfers created the illusion of abundance.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Looking forward, there are two more areas for potential tropical development in the Atlantic basin in early October.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The floodplain has been redrawn wider than ever, outlawing home construction in new danger zones.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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As the rain grew worse, Joey checked online and found that their apartment complex was in a floodplain.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Of course, Tom finds him first and inanely yells his name across the ravine.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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From the top of a lift, the three of us descended 4,800 feet into a ravine that, over the course of two hours, funneled us to Refugio Frey.—
Scott Yorko,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The couple had come up from their Sun City home in metro Phoenix in spring to shuttle rim-to-rim canyon hikers to their vehicles, hoping to escape the summer heat like many of their clients.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Try the roughly two-mile Hickman Bridge Trail to admire the canyon and walk beneath the 300-foot Hickman Bridge, a natural sandstone arch.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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But, true to the chaotic and improvisational nature of his medium, the screening was delayed by about 25 minutes as Speed wrapped things up and attendees were corralled to their seats with buckets of kettle corn and hard Topo Chicos.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
5 Oct. 2025
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That’s why the United Kingdom’s National Grid engineers have to manage surges in energy use during popular broadcast events, when many viewers put their kettles on simultaneously.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Two-time King of the Baggers champion Tyler O’Hara was in the saddle, pushing the bike to its limits.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Andrew Nusca here, back in the saddle after the birth of my second son.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Throughout the course, climbers can see the 2,303-foot-high Triumvirate Glacier, with all its moraines and otherworldly blue crevasses, as well as the Tordrillo Mountains, which include Mount Spurr, an active volcano that last erupted in 1992.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Sep. 2025
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There are so many rabbit holes to go down, so many dark crevasses of the internet, of the show, of these women’s past that are better left unexplored.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There were more creeks, high hills, big parks, passes, and open mountainsides with broken, timbered canyons and gulches.—
Fred C. Mercer,
Outdoor Life,
14 Aug. 2025
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Mandatory evacuations were active along the Colorado 13 corridor from the White River near Meeker to south of Piceance Creek Road in Garfield County, parts of Rio Blanco County east of Willow Creek and south of Piceance Creek, and gulches west of Colorado 13.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
10 Aug. 2025
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